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Chiichanny's Art Thread

Heya guys!
here is a taster of some of my work!
please enjoy ^^

EDIT:

i should prolly explain my work a bit and where i started!, i started getting into manga fully when i was 13, i loved to draw and mainly did fan art at that point, once i hit 15 i started making my own characters, i was still crap at it even then XDWork from when i was 16 you may laugh at it, i do XD
but from then one, i seeked alot of critisizm and by a year later i improved by a hell of alot!Here is a timeline of my work so you can get a better idea of how i progressed.
and it leads on to today where lately i havnt been drawing as much but i want to improve even more, i just need to get out of my art slump XD

Do you actually draw and color these by hand? :O It must be difficult, and they're all very lovely. I've been trying to find a marker with the correct skin tone for ages. >_<

yeah i draw and colour everything by hand
but some i draw digitally using my tablet, and some i do on paper, it varies depending on my mood, time and if i have the materials XD

an i know what you mean by skin colour, but!, i found the perfect marker for light skin with copics, its called Skin white (E00) or for slightly darker E21 (Baby skin pink), but E21 is rather dark, so its good for shadows on E00
its good to buy all the skin tones and just test them out ^^

and if you use pro-markers get Blush, and make sure you use these on marker paper

and for pale white skin, use ivory

or use pencils, orange & pink for skin and red for blush, then use a grey/blue or light brown for shades
as long as you know what effect you are after its generally easy from there

and yeah getting them right is the difficult part, but drawing them and colouring them is the fun part! =D
unless its a comission and your comissioner is on your back 24/7 ... not so fun then ; - ;

for most part yeah ^^
i started with basic cell shading style work and grew my own style from there

and yes copics are expensive but they are refillable, have a brush nib and last a while, they are prolly the best marker brand ^^

they are well worth getting, im saving up to get the whole Ciao set of 144 pens, will cost me £250

that about maybe .... $400
but il be using these for the art show i plan to attent next year, so if you know what you are doing, you can make the money back ^^

but if you want cheap, id say buy a few packs of pro markers from letraset or so from ebay. get the manga sets and the manga pack if you can, that way you will get pens, paper and fine liner so have what you need to start using them ^^

thats what i started with, cost about £15, thats about $25 and it comes with like 9 pens i think in the pack, its not bad for the price really.

so start with something cheap, and buy like one or 2 copics of colours that you will use and you can test them both and see what works best for you ^^

Photoshop... okay... And would you tell me please how you go about creating a drawing? I assume you draw the outlines on paper? With pencil? And then you tighten the figure with a black pen, scan it in and work on it with photoshop?
It's because I also draw but I let my drawings unfinished every time. I leave it at pencil drawings... You can look at my FanArt-Thread... =)

urr actually, i use photoshop for everything XD
uncluding the sketch, i put the sketch on a layer, then line art on a seperate layer, then colours on seperate layers.
after im done with the sketch i hide the view of the layer.

I was on the Chat today and offered a free chibi
Sixth was the lucky one to get a free chibi, and he asked for a killer whale, i have never drawn a killer whale before so this was a first XD
hope you like it!